In Re Tax Claim Bureau of Beaver County Tax Sale September 10, 1990

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• holding that tax claim bureau did not make reasonable effort to locate party when notice was returned, party’s address was available in the domestic relations records, and bureau had letters from party’s divorce attorney
• when certified mailing returned as undelivered, tax bureau was “put on notice” of need to search for correct address
• 1986 Pennsylvania legislation sets forth efforts such as searching telephone directories, and dockets and indices of county tax offices
• “due process requires the tax claim bureau to do more than merely check telephone directories and the records maintained by the offices of the recorder of deeds and prothonotary and the county assessment office”
• court held bureau did not make reasonable effort to determine owner’s proper address where original notice returned undelivered, bureau had in its files two petitions with owner’s correct address, and bureau also had name and address of owner’s attorney

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